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Tamta's World - The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia (Paperback)
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Tamta's World - The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia (Paperback)
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This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman
named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family
at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in
marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured during
a siege. She was later raped and then married by the Khwarazmshah
and held hostage by the Mongols, before being made an independent
ruler under them in eastern Anatolia. Her tale stretches from the
Mediterranean to Mongolia and reveals the extraordinary connections
across continents and cultures that one woman could experience.
Without a voice of her own, surviving monuments - monasteries and
mosques, caravanserais and palaces - build up a picture of Tamta's
world and the roles women played in it. The book explores how
women's identities changed between different courts, with shifting
languages, religions and cultures, and between their roles as
daughters, wives, mothers and widows.
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